Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Tia Misel Cooks, 32, was arrested yesterday after she allegedly drove away with a parking boot attached to her car, damaging the boot, and then fled from an officer who tried to conduct a traffic stop.
At about 3:29 p.m. on January 9, a Gainesville Police Department officer was flagged down by a tow truck driver who had placed a parking boot on a white Toyota Corolla because it was parked in a tow-away zone in the 200 block of SW 2nd Avenue; the tow truck driver said the driver of the car drove away and broke the boot…